Top 5 Years for Hip-Hop Music

[coolhandsteve]

Pretty sure years like 1994 will be on these lists. Discuss

[MP.Trey]

88, 93, 94, 98, 00

[BlakFrankWhite]

88, 93, 94, 98, 00

Replace 93 with 96

[MP.Trey]

Replace 93 with 96
Fair. I think 88 and 00 are locks and you can really fill those other three spots with any part of the 90's depending on your preference.

[NBAplayoffs2001]

88, 94, 96, 98, 00. Rap's at its' best is around 94-98 for me.

[NumberSix]

Consecutive years?

1994-1998

[Just2McFly]

2015/95/94/96/06

[KyrieTheFuture]

2015/95/94/96/06
Explain yourself.

[Just2McFly]

Explain yourself.

Man it isn't that hard to explain.... every two weeks there have been solid releases falling from the sky.... a lot of artists are dropping consistently good material and growing.

When you at the releases for this year, and we still got more to come...I'm just like holy **** this has been the best year for rap in some time.

Who hasn't dropped in the last ten months? All of the big names have dropped something outside of Kanye and Jay and they both have been cooking something up for years...

This is the year where I can wake up and hear that a legend has dropped an album literally overnight. Rappers are actually competing and the artform is alive again.

[L.Kizzle]

I made a thread about 1994 being the best year in Hip-Hop.
Than you have other important years like 1988, 1995, 1991, 1996.

As a five year run, I'd go 92-96.

[Just2McFly]

what specifically do you love from this year though? also when was the artform not alive?
i honestly had a huge post typed up and the shit logged me out... this site is so trash

[L.Kizzle]

i honestly had a huge post typed up and the shit logged me out... this site is so trash
Site probably detected some bullshit you was about to post.
:D

[Just2McFly]

if i have time ill hit you guys with some shit in the morning... but go listen and educate yourselves

[L.Kizzle]

if i have time ill hit you guys with some shit in the morning... but go listen and educate yourselves
Second tier guys from the past like Bobby Womack would shit on today's artist.

[bdreason]

I'll go with '92 through '96. The 90's in general was the pinnacle of Hip-Hop. I was fortunate that it coincided with my HS/College years.

[raprap]

Never really bothered with 90's hiphop. I'd say I've really enjoyed 2015.

[Just2McFly]

Second tier guys from the past like Bobby Womack would shit on today's artist.
You know what's funny about you? You act like n*ggas back in the day weren't doing the same shit now. Do you realize how many albums were just pure shit back in the day outside of singles ? Or how many early rappers had a tough time rhyming ? I heard fly girl for the first time in a long time and cringed for the whole song

[LootOP]

88
1. Public Enemy: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (Def Jam)
2. N.W.A: Straight Outta Compton (Ruthless)
3. The Great Adventures of Slick Rick (Def Jam)
4. EPMD: Strictly Business (Fresh)
5. Boogie Down Productions: By Any Means Necessary (Jive)
6. Big Daddy Kane: Long Live the Kane (Cold Chillin')
7. Ultramagnetic MCs: Critical Beatdown (Next Plateau)
8. Eric B. & Rakim: Follow the Leader (Uni)
9. Biz Markie: Goin' Off (Cold Chillin')
10. Jungle Brothers: Straight Out the Jungle (Idlers)
11. Eazy-E: Eazy-Duz-It (Ruthless)
12. Run-D.M.C.: Tougher Than Leather (Profile)
13. MC Lyte: Lyte as a Rock (First Priority)
14. DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince: He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper (Jive)
15. Marley Marl: In Control Vol. 1 (Cold Chillin')
16. Salt-n-Pepa: A Salt with a Deadly Pepa (Next Plateau)
17. Kool G Rap & DJ Polo: Road to the Riches (Cold Chillin')
18. Doug E. Fresh & the Get Fresh Crew: The World's Greatest Entertainer (Reality)
19. Stetsasonic: In Full Gear (Tommy Boy)
20. 2 Live Crew: Move Somethin' (Luke Skyywalker)
21. Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud: Girls I Got 'em Locked (Elektra)
22. Life is...Too $hort (Jive)
23. King Tee: Act a Fool (Capitol)
24. Kid 'n Play: 2 Hype (Select)
25. Lakim Shabazz: Pure Righteousness (Tuff City)

94

"Kurious
A Constipated Monkey "
"MC Eiht
We Come Strapped "
"JT the Bigga Figga
Playaz n the Game "
"Dru Down
Explicit Game "
"UGK
Super Tight... "
"Odd Squad
Fadanuf fa Erybody "
"Eightball & MJG
On the Outside Looking In "
"Redman
Dare Iz a Darkside "
"E-40
The Mail Man [EP]"
"King Tee
IV Life "
"Scarface
The Diary "
"The Roots
Do You Want More?!!!??! "
"Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
Creepin on Ah Come Up [EP]"
"Method Man
Tical "
"Big Mike
Somethin' Serious "
"Beastie Boys
Ill Communication "
"Gang Starr
Hard to Earn "
"Organized Konfusion
Stress: The Extinction Agenda "
"Gravediggaz
6 Feet Deep "
"Common Sense
Resurrection "
"The Beatnuts
The Beatnuts "
"Jeru the Damaja
The Sun Rises in the East "
"OutKast
Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik "
"The Notorious B.I.G.
Ready to Die "
"Nas
Illmatic "


96
"Crucial Conflict
The Final Tic "
"Master P
Ice Cream Man "
"Xzibit
At the Speed of Life "
"Geto Boys
The Resurrection "
"UGK
Ridin' Dirty "
"Heltah Skeltah
Nocturnal "
"E-40
Tha Hall of Game "
"Jeru the Damaja
Wrath of the Math "
"The Roots
Illadelph Halflife "
"Lil' Kim
Hard Core "
"Westside Connection
Bow Down "
"2Pac
All Eyez on Me "
"Busta Rhymes
The Coming "
"Dr. Octagon
Dr. Octagonecologyst "
"Keith Murray
Enigma "
"Makaveli
The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory "
"Prince Paul
Psychoanalysis (What Is It?) "
"De La Soul
Stakes Is High "
"M.O.P
Firing Squad "
"Redman
Muddy Waters "
"Fugees
The Score "
"OutKast
ATLiens "
"Mobb Deep
Hell on Earth "
"Ghostface Killah
Ironman "
"Ja

[TylerOO]

what specifically do you love from this year though? also when was the artform not alive?

Barter

[L.Kizzle]

You know what's funny about you? You act like n*ggas back in the day weren't doing the same shit now. Do you realize how many albums were just pure shit back in the day outside of singles ? Or how many early rappers had a tough time rhyming ? I heard fly girl for the first time in a long time and cringed for the whole song
It was more good albums than crap album back in the day, and you know that man. Even the one hit wonders, or novelty rapper back then were better. I'll take Special Ed or Chi Ali over any of these clowns today.

Early rappers didn't have a tough time rhyming, that's how you rhymed back then. It hadn't evolved yet. That's like listening to an uptempo James Brown record in 1959 and saying "man, this shit ain't funky?" Funk wasn't invented yet.

[~primetime~]

1. 1992
2. 1994
3. 1993
4. 1991
5. 1995

http://images.rapgenius.com/97c311ae97a2ffd2c4e587ccea7b5164.500x500x1.jpg

^^^ that was 91 and that album is when I really started to love rap. I had listened to NWA and otehr stuff before Death Certificate but I didn't 'love' it until then. So 91 is big with me.

Then in 92 The Chronic hit and it was just over...



around 98-99 is when it started to die down for me...Wu Tang Forever came out in 97, I feel like that was the most anticipated rap album of all time. I liked it a lot and it lasted me a couple years, but after that I feel like I stopped getting excited over rap.

[~primetime~]

Was just listening to this today...1994, still goes hard (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_01fZWIxLoQ)